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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






2. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






3. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






4. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






5. Closed syllable






6. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






7. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






8. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






9. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






10. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






11. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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12. Individual Educational Plan






13. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






14. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






15. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






16. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






17. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






18. Feeling through fingertips






19. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






20. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






21. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






22. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






23. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






24. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






25. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






26. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






27. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






28. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






29. Final stable syllable

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30. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






31. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






32. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






33. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






34. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






35. Whole body learning






36. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






37. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






38. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






39. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






40. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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41. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






42. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






43. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






44. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






45. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






46. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






47. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






48. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






49. Wide Range Achievement Test






50. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.